Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Delivering the Holidays

Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night will keep the Postal Service from doing what it does best — delivering the holidays.

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Postal Service will deliver 15.8 billion cards, letters, and packages across the country and around the world. This holiday season, the U.S. Postal Service is encouraging customers to relax a little and take the stress out of holiday shipping by going online to usps.com to order Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes, print shipping labels with postage using Click-N-Ship service, and schedule free Package Pickup.

Because Christmas Day falls on a Saturday this year, the Postal Service will experience two peak volume mailing days and two peak volume delivery days.

Peak Mailing Day: Monday, December 20 will be the busiest mailing day, with an expected 801 million cards, letters, and packages being processed. December 13 is expected to be nearly as busy.

Peak Delivery Day: Wednesday, December 22 will be the busiest delivery day. December 15 is expected to be nearly as busy.

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